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DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean...
DOROTHY AND RED by Vincent Sheean. 363 pages. Houghton Mufflin...
...Biographer Vincent Sheean did, and what he did not know then he later learned as house guest of the Lewises at Barnard, Vt., and from the Dorothy Thompson papers at Syracuse University. "Jimmy" Sheean was "too pretty" and had "a wet lower lip," his friend Dorothy noted in her diary, but there was nothing the matter with his eyesight; his book about the private and public life of Dorothy and "Red" Lewis is an extraordinary thing. Involving as it does the privacy of two people recently dead and known to thousands of others who are still living...
...toiled for 16 hours a day over An American in Paris. Promptly at 10 a.m. every Sunday, Hemingway rumbled in to sip his customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place...
Calling the Tune.. Author Sheean is fascinated by Verdi's "peasant" response both to the grim tragedies of his youth and the fame of his later years. The words that appear in Verdi's last and perhaps greatest work, Falstaff-"Cammina! Cammina!" (keep going, keep going)-were already his maxim in his null and he kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned...